-
Always wise thoughts from the one and only Kevin Murphy . If for some reason you haven’t heard of him yet, all you need to know is that Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
Category: science
(Many) Econlinks for the Weekend
-
A nice, brief VoxEU note of Willem Buiter on negative nominal interest rates (and their potential desirability). Greg Mankiw also tackled the topic earlier.
-
If you’re at all into arithmetics (and not only) you might like this concise exposé on very big numbers (think Ackerman series, Busy Beavers and the like if you are dubious about what “very big” stands for in this context…).
Sunday night econlinks
-
Reviewing the reviewers, with cross-disciplinary insights. Who would have thought that Economics is somewhat like History? :-). Thanks to Daniel for the link!
What I’ve been reading
-
Jay McInerney’s “Bacchus and me“, one of the best books I’ve read within the past two years or so. Informative, witty, provocative (even for me: I clearly disagree with the author in several places!,
Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis
Beyond the fact that I think this is the best journal name I have ever heard of, I do agree however with the other points of Andrew Gelman .
→ Read more